全球知名的快餐店KFC有什么样的秘密呢？来看看这位号称自己在澳大利亚某分店工作的雇员说的爆料吧……

KFC is famous for its cheap and cheerful crispy fried chicken - and now the secrets of how it's made have been revealed by a 'chef' at the fast food giant.

KFC因为其食物便宜，炸鸡香脆可口而闻名于世。现在，一位在KFC这家快餐业巨头工作的厨师曝光了KFC的秘密。

Crispy：脆的

Reveal：揭露

Giant：巨头，巨人

The anonymous man who claims to be a worker at the chain lifted the lid on what it's like to be a KFC employee at an Australian branch.

一位声称自己是KFC员工的匿名男子向大家揭露了在澳大利亚KFC分店当雇员是一种怎样的感受。

lift the lid：打开盖子

branch：分部

He claims that some of his colleagues don't wash their hands during food preparation and that his manager had sex with a colleague on top of the restaurant sinks - though the claims are unsubstantiated.

他说到有一些员工在准备食物的过程中不洗手，他们的经理还在餐厅的水槽上和员工做爱。虽然这些事情都还没有得到证实。

Preparation：准备

Sink：水槽

Unsubstantiated：未经证实的

He revealed that the chefs are not let in on the secret of KFC's recipe for its famous Original Recipe chicken as they are just given a bag of flour, milk, eggs and a packet of seasoning mix to coat the chicken with.

他揭露餐厅不允许厨师们公布KFC的食物配方，最著名的原味鸡不过是将一些面粉、牛奶、鸡蛋和一些调料混合后裹在了鸡肉上。

Recipe：配方

Flour：面粉

Coat：给…涂上

The chicken only takes minutes to took, he revealed, ranging from 12 minutes for fresh Original Recipe to just three minutes for the chicken Tenders.

他还揭露到，鸡肉只需要几分钟就能做好，原味鸡块需要12分钟做好，鸡柳则只需要3分钟就能制成。

Range from：从…到…

chicken Tenders：嫩鸡肉，鸡柳

The employee also told a creepy tale about a strange customer. " We call him the crawler coming at really late parts of the night when no customers are around and just crawling through drive thru in a black hoodie and just standing around. One time my manager mate was alone in the store (everyone left already) and he finished around 12:50 and he went to his car to go home and as he was looking through his phone he looked right and the crawler was just standing there just by his windscreen."

这位员工还讲了一个关于陌生顾客的诡异故事。“我们把这个陌生人成为爬行者。他总是在没有客人的晚上出现，从行车道那里爬过来，穿着黑色的连帽衫，站着一动不动。有一次，我们的经理一个人在店内（其他人都已经走了），他结束工作后已经是晚上12:50了。然后他走向自己的车准备开车回家。当他向右看手机时，发现这个爬行者正好站在他的挡风玻璃那。”

creepy tale：鬼故事

crawl：爬

hoodie：连帽衫

windscreen：挡风玻璃

A KFC spokesman said: " We take hygiene really seriously at KFC and have very strict standards in place, so we have no reason to believe any allegations made here are true."

一位KFC公司发言人表示：“我们对待KFC的卫生情况非常的认真，而且我们有着非常严格的标准，所以没有理由去相信这些话是真的。”

Hygiene：卫生

strict standards：严格标准

allegation：断言，没有根据的指控

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